A SMALL THING BUT THEN AGAIN...It was THAT track.It just wasn't THAT distance.And yet it was for others...The track was FLEMINGTON.Two significant runners were two immigrants from a powerful Cups Factory.They ran in a 1200 metres mad scramble down the straight.And at last report they had been sighted around the two furlong mark.ALANDI last ran over 4000 metres in France in October. Irish horse.MOURAYAN, another Paddy, last ran at Doncaster (no, the UK one) in September. Another stayer.In both ca
A SMALL THING BUT THEN AGAIN...
It was THAT track.
It just wasn't THAT distance.
And yet it was for others...
The track was FLEMINGTON.
Two significant runners were two immigrants from a powerful Cups Factory.
They ran in a 1200 metres mad scramble down the straight.
And at last report they had been sighted around the two furlong mark.
ALANDI last ran over 4000 metres in France in October. Irish horse.
MOURAYAN, another Paddy, last ran at Doncaster (no, the UK one) in September. Another stayer.
In both cases, the Makybe Diva preparation. Have a run or two then back to the paddock.
Then in the next race, the surprising second coming of Persian Star continued. She established herself as the only serious Cups threat emerging from the Ramsden.
Three stayers to note in that black book of ours. Being deadly serious, those two imports ran last and second last but they have finished and they have gone home to rest after their shocks.
They've seen the track, they've felt it underfoot, and they are sound.
That was all the owner wanted.